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Method Receivers

Explore method receivers in Go programming to understand how methods associate with value types and pointers. Learn when to use pointer receivers to avoid copying large structs and enable method modifications. This lesson helps you write efficient and clear Go methods to improve code performance and maintainability.

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Methods can be associated with a named type (User for instance) or a pointer to a named type (*User). In the two type aliasing examples in previous lesson, methods were ...